Apparently Tim Allen is not happy at all that ABC canceled his show “Last Man Standing”, pointing out on Twitter that he is stunned and was blindsided by the network:
FOX NEWS – Tim Allen is speaking out days after ABC canceled his show “Last Man Standing.”
ABC announced it canceled Allen’s show after six seasons last week telling Fox News “this was a scheduling decision.” The network was immediately hit with criticism that the show was axed due to its conservative values and a petition on Change.org to have it reinstated in the lineup has racked up more than 200,000 signatures in less than a week.
Allen finally took to Twitter to respond to the news.
“Stunned and blindsided by the network I called home for the last six years,” he wrote Tuesday night.
Stunned and blindsided by the network I called home for the last six years. #lastmanstanding
— Tim Allen (@ofctimallen) May 16, 2017
Allen and his co-star Hector Elizondo declined to comment to Fox News about the cancellation. His co-stars Nancy Travis, Kaitlyn Dever, Molly Ephraim and Christoph Sanders did not return Fox News’ request for comment.
However, Nancy Travis, who plays Allen’s wife Vanessa Baxter on the show, has been retweeting fans’ efforts to boycott ABC until they bring back “Last Man Standing.”
Amanda Fuller, who plays Allen’s daughter Kristen asked fans to sign the petition in support of the show and shared an emotional note on Twitter.
“To all the devoted ‘Last Man Standing’ fans, thank you,” she wrote in a lengthy note. “I believe in the power that lies in storytelling being a mirror to our world, representing all voices…and for that reason I have always been proud and honored to be a part of ‘Last Man Standing,’ the only sitcom today that I feel truly strived to do that.”
The cancellation came as a shock for many fans considering the show’s high ratings. Deadline reports the sitcom was the network’s second-highest comedy this season and averaged 8.1 million viewers, just behind “Modern Family,” which averaged 8.7 million viewers this season and was recently renewed for two more seasons. It was also ABC’s third highest watched scripted series behind “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Modern Family.”
It is stunning for a network to cancel a show that has such high ratings, considering they can charge more for ads on a high rated show.
Tim Allen clearly wasn’t part of this decision making process and when you put all of this together, there probably is something to the theories that the show was targeted for being more of the conservative bent, especially in the era of Trump.
I hope people do boycott ABC. After all, it feels like ABC is spitting in the faces of their fans and they deserve to feel the consequences.